sphinxsix Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 After a slight overdose of Shostakovitch in recent days, I'm really kind of enjoying this. The choreography in this clip is quite similar christopher3393 1 Link to comment
fas42 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Every time I see people with overdone tattoos, I'm reminded of the dreggy, total loser kids at the back of the classroom at school, who used to scribble all over their arms with biros, as a way of "entertaining themselves" ... 😜. Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted February 7, 2020 Author Share Posted February 7, 2020 On 1/25/2020 at 12:03 AM, fas42 said: Every time I see people with overdone tattoos, I'm reminded of the dreggy, total loser kids at the back of the classroom at school, who used to scribble all over their arms with biros, as a way of "entertaining themselves" ... 😜. Do you think he's overdone his tattoos.? Link to comment
Sal1950 Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 28 minutes ago, sphinxsix said: Do you think he's overdone his tattoos.? Can you see him at 85? 😭 "The gullibility of audiophiles is what astonishes me the most, even after all these years. How is it possible, how did it ever happen, that they trust fairy-tale purveyors and mystic gurus more than reliable sources of scientific information?" Peter Aczel - The Audio Critic R.I.P. MQA 2014-2023: Hyped product thanks to uneducated, uncritical advocates & captured press. Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted February 7, 2020 Author Share Posted February 7, 2020 2 minutes ago, Sal1950 said: Can you see him at 85? 😭 I was joking. But I think he may not give a ... Link to comment
Sal1950 Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 5 minutes ago, sphinxsix said: But I think he may not give a ... None of us did at his age. But we live and learn. LOL "The gullibility of audiophiles is what astonishes me the most, even after all these years. How is it possible, how did it ever happen, that they trust fairy-tale purveyors and mystic gurus more than reliable sources of scientific information?" Peter Aczel - The Audio Critic R.I.P. MQA 2014-2023: Hyped product thanks to uneducated, uncritical advocates & captured press. Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted February 7, 2020 Author Share Posted February 7, 2020 6 minutes ago, Sal1950 said: None of us did at his age. But we live and learn. LOL Would never make a tattoo myself (although I think a single, beautiful tattoo can be cool) because of the risk of waking up one morning and realizing - I don't like it anymore. That's always been my attitude in this regard, didn't have to learn the lesson here. What about you? Link to comment
Popular Post sphinxsix Posted December 25, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 25, 2021 Long long time ago.. I guess those who think that rock is good nowadays don't remember them.. Confused and ShawnC 2 Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted January 10, 2023 Author Share Posted January 10, 2023 From what according to The Rolling Stone is the best metal album of 2022. Associations with Bad Brains are unavoidable.. Not bad IMO! christopher3393 1 Link to comment
fas42 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 2 hours ago, sphinxsix said: From what according to The Rolling Stone is the best metal album of 2022. Associations with Bad Brains are unavoidable.. Not bad IMO! As good an example as any of why I have absolutely zero interest in nearly all "popular" music coming out these days - as an alternative, equivalent pleasure I could stand next to a brick wall, and bang my head against it for 5 minutes ... . Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted January 10, 2023 Author Share Posted January 10, 2023 23 minutes ago, fas42 said: As good an example as any of why I have absolutely zero interest in nearly all "popular" music coming out these days - as an alternative, equivalent pleasure I could stand next to a brick wall, and bang my head against it for 5 minutes ... . You ever listen to metal, hard-core etc.? Link to comment
fas42 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 8 minutes ago, sphinxsix said: You ever listen to metal, hard-core etc.? Most of the music I come across, by accident, of this genre, in current form, I find downright boring - there is absolutely nothing interesting going on. Hence the reference to the brick wall, . Energy comes from inner vitality of the music - just being hammered by constant 'loudness' is a big turn off; there has to be a spark in there ... somewhere ... Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted January 11, 2023 Author Share Posted January 11, 2023 @fas42 So you are like someone who doesn't listen to eg jazz and hears Trane's 'Love Supreme' or worse eg Brotzmann's 'Machine Gun'.. Both are regarded as extremely important albums but for someone who is not into jazz they are simply worthless junk (and that's ok - degustibus etc)..😎 Link to comment
fas42 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 I could be like someone who posted, Quote I find opera vocals quite unbearable too (I quite like some instrumental opera recordings though eg Wagner - The 'Ring without Words' issued by Telarc ). I guess I find operatic singing unnatural and tiresome just like heavy metal growling which I can't accept either. sphinxsix 1 Link to comment
fas42 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 Now, this, for me is rock energy at its best ... Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted January 11, 2023 Author Share Posted January 11, 2023 I used to love Slade. When I was 7 or 8. It's just a standard r'n'r - boogie-woogie piece, what's the difference between that and eg this (beside 15 years difference between the recordings that is).? 🙂 Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted January 11, 2023 Author Share Posted January 11, 2023 5 minutes ago, fas42 said: And then there's always, For me the same story with a slight variation - in case of Status Quo ALL of their recordings (not 70-80% of them) are based on the same, mentioned earlier scheme.. 😎 Link to comment
fas42 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 It's all about the energy, and always will be ... to get that, there needs to be light and shade ... Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted January 11, 2023 Author Share Posted January 11, 2023 You won't find any of these basic chords (that BTW guitarists-beginners learn usually on their first guitar lesson) in the above Soul Glo piece, things are a bit more complicated here.. Link to comment
fas42 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 1 minute ago, sphinxsix said: You won't find any of these basic chords (that BTW guitarists-beginners learn usually on their first guitar lesson) in the above Soul Glo piece, things are a bit more complicated here.. Yes, once you get over the zero dynamic range in the piece, then it might have some impact ... Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted January 11, 2023 Author Share Posted January 11, 2023 8 minutes ago, fas42 said: there needs to be light and shade ... The first band I'm thinking about here are Pixies who based most of their compositions on the loud-quiet-loud scheme and btw were the authors of the most famous Nirvana riff, K. Cobain admitted it... But also in their case the boogie-woogie harmonies are a long forgotten (hi)story. The music moves forward.. The times they are a'changing.. my friend :-) DuckToller 1 Link to comment
fas42 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 Yes, music always changes ... and needs to - but is that relevant to, "rock energy at its best!"? If I'm scratching my head during the song, wondering what on earth they're trying to achieve, then it hasn't succeeded in conveying, "energy" ... The clue here is the word "rock" - as usual, its origins are to do with that activity - so something of that sense has to be in the picture, to my mind. Link to comment
fas42 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 Quick look around ... yes, there is interesting music, emerging right now ... and this is good use of light and shade ... Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted January 11, 2023 Author Share Posted January 11, 2023 That is way more interesting. Not exactly on my music orbit but interesting.. Link to comment
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